ANANDA YAAN Life has been getting stressful for our Ananda Yaan seniors at the Byculla centre. The essentials provided by the ration shops were not enough for the full family. We, at Dignity Foundation and Rotary Club of Bombay, swung into action and arranged for 100 ration kits, each having 12 essential items of good quality...
The situation at the Ananda Yaan’s Dr. E. Moses Road centre was getting precarious day by day as the lockdown continued. Our coordinator was getting calls that many senior citizens were running out of ration and had no help. There were many cases where the earning member of the house was not getting a salary...
We keep seeing celebrities wishing their fans well. One of the many well-wishers of the Rotary Club of Bombay is musician Shankar Mahadevan who is involved with our Bhavishya Yaan and Anand Yaan projects. Shankar sent this heartfelt note for children and senior citizens of these projects. This makes us realise how well these projects...
The Rotary Club of Bombay’s Ananda Yaan Centres – Dr. E Moses Road and Byculla (a joint initiative by Dignity Foundation and RCB) had their first-ever Sports Day on February 22nd, 2020. Over 100 senior citizens participated. We invited the Rotaract members of ISME School of Management to curate and organise the races. Care was...
On February 8th, 2020, the Rotary Club of Bombay arranged an Eye Camp at our Ananda Yaan Dr. E Moses Road Centre (a joint venture between Dignity Foundation and Rotary Club of Bombay). This was our second eye camp here. The last one was held over a year ago. Again, we collaborated with the Aditya Jyot...
India Post Payments Bank visited the Ananda Yaan centres (a joint venture between Dignity Foundation and Rotary Club of Bombay). The Government of India, through the India Post Payment Bank, is giving under-privileged people access to banks at their doorstep. Not only can one open an account from the comfort of home, one can avail other...
Lady members of the Ananda Yaan Byculla Centre (a joint venture between Dignity Foundation and Rotary Club of Bombay) celebrated Haldi-Kumkum on January 21st, 2020. A live dosa counter was setup at the Byculla Centre. Rtn. Sherebanu Baldiwala organised special south Indian snacks at the centre and along with Rtn Charu Agrawal participated in the...
NCPA’s outreach programme delights senior citizens In December, both our Ananda Yaan Centres (joint initiatives of Dignity Foundation and Rotary Club of Bombay) got a golden opportunity when renowned Kathak artiste Seema Mehta and her two students performed at the centre. They were accompanied by Satyaprakash Mishra on the tabla. This was possible due to the...
Christmas came to the Ananda Yaan centres at Byculla and Dr. E Moses Road (a joint venture between Dignity Foundation and Rotary Club of Bombay)! This year, the youngsters decided that they would celebrate Christmas with the senior citizens. At RCB’s Dr. E. Moses Road centre, students from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences organised the...
We can keep guessing who used Ananda Seva from RCB but does it really matter? What matters is the happiness that followed when our members at Dr. E Moses Road came to know that they were going to watch a movie together. Our Ananda Yaan E Moses members have been requesting, for a while, that...
MEMBERS of Ananda Yaan, Byculla (a joint initiative of Rotary Club of Bombay and Dignity Foundation) have been practising tai chi for eight months. Tai chi, an ancient Chinese martial art, involves graceful, meditative, light, and natural movement which relaxes and stimulates every part of the body. This moving meditation is set in motion by...
ABOUT 110 members of Ananda Yaan (Byculla & Dr. E Moses) (a joint initiative of Dignity Foundation and Rotary Club of Bombay) visited the Varadvinayak Ganapati Temple at Mahad (Khopoli district) on December 11. The Varadvinayak Mahad Ganapati Temple is the seventh Ganesha temple among Ashtavinayak to be visited during the Ashtavinayak Darshan yatra/ tour. There...